Rose Champagne Macarons
Dress up your macarons with rose buttercream and a Champagne jelly center. Taste Made
Ingredients
For the Macarons Shells
- 300 grams ground almonds
- 300 grams pure icing sugar (without corn flour added to it)
- 110 grams liquefied egg whites
- 300 grams caster sugar
- 75 grams water
- 110 grams liquefied egg whites
- Pearl Colour mist (wilton)
- Red colour mist (wilton)
- 2 drops deep pink americolor food gel Frosting
- 1 batch fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting
- 2 teaspoons rose essence
For the Rose Champagne Jelly
- 400 ml Rose Champage
- 5 tbsp powdered gelatin + 5 tablespoons cold water
Instructions
- Rose Champagne jelly
Add the gelatin and water to a mixing bowl and mix together until well combined. Allow to sit for 5 min. Microwave for 15 seconds to melt and set aside.Add the champagne to a large microwave safe bowl and microwave for 5 min. Add melted gelatin and mix until completely dissolved. If it doesn't dissolve completely, add to microwave for another minute and mix again.Transfer to a large baking tray and refrigerate for 4 hours (at least)Once the jelly is set, use a small piping tip to cut out circles of jelly. Set aside in the fridge.MacaronsAdd the icing sugar and almond meal into a food processor and process until well combined. This will help get rid of any lumps in the sugar. Alternatively, you may sift the two together. This must be done at least 3 times.Empty the almond mixture into a large mixing bowl, add the first portion of egg whites and mix until it forms a paste. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.Add the sugar and water into a small saucepan. Give them a very gentle stir to get them mixed together. Bring to a boil on medium high heat, then turn down to a simmer. Add a candy thermometer to the pot to help you measure the temp of the syrup. As the syrup bubbles away it will splatter small bubbles of sugared water on the sides of the pot. Use a pastry brush dabbed in a little water to brush those back into the syrup. This will help prevent the syrup from crystallising. When the syrup reaches 115C, add the second portion of egg whites to the bowl of a stand mixer and start whisking them on medium/high speed to help break them apart and get them a little frothy.When the syrup reaches 118C, pour it over the egg whites in a slow and steady stream. Whisk to stiff peaks for about 6 min. Add the COLOUR and vanilla extract at about the 3 min point, whisk into the meringue for a couple of minutes. Stop the mixer and scrape down, then whisk for an extra couple of minutes. When you can turn the bowl over and the meringue doesn't fall out, you know you've reached stiff peaks.Grab a spatula full of the meringue and fold it into the almond-sugar mixture, mix until well combined. This allows the mixture to thin out a little before you add the rest of the mixture. Fold everything together by going around the bowl with a spatula then through the middle (as demonstrated in the video). Continue folding until the batter gets thin enough that it drips off the spatula and falls in a ribbon. It should take about 10 seconds for the ribbon to disappear into the rest of the batter. That's when you know the batter is ready to pipe.Spoon the batter into a piping bag with a round tip.Pipe rounds of batter about 3.5 centimeters (1.38 inches) in diameter, spacing them 2 centimeters apart on (flat) baking trays lined with baking parchment. Sprinkle with sprinkles.Gently tap the tray on the work surface covered with a kitchen cloth. Leave to stand for at least 30 minutes, until a skin forms on the shells. They shouldn't be sticky when you touch them. It's at this point that you can preheat a fan forced oven to 180C (360F)Bake for 12 minutes. If you feel your oven is causing the macarons to brown on one side (usually the side closest to the fan) turn the tray around about half way through baking. Once they're baked, let them cool completely.To prepare frosting combine buttercream and rose essence and mix until well combined.Spray the macaron shells with the pearl spray. Let them dry for 15 min before you spray one side with red mist.Fit the end of a piping bag with a small French tip. Place a piece of jelly in the middle of one of the cookies. Frost a double swirl of frosting around it. And sandwich with the other cookies.
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